SEVEN reasons to move your email filtering to the cloud

Posted On February 21, 2016

With cloud services predicted to grow again this year you might be considering moving your email filtering to the cloud. If you’re wondering why you should we’ve put together this helpful list of seven reasons why making the move is a good idea:

Less management

All hardware requires constant updates, patches and fixes in order to stay at optimum efficiency and email filtering systems are no different. When you have a large number of systems to do this for it can soon seem like too much time is spent trying to keep on top of the endless update cycles. With cloud email filtering solutions these tasks are taken care of for you. System updates and patches are applied automatically by the cloud service provider so you can get on with other tasks.

Redundancy

Unless you have a replica email server at a secondary location and automatic failover taking place the redundancy offered by cloud-based email filtering solutions will be better than an onsite setup. Cloud solutions are designed to be fully redundant and the data is backed-up in multiple, geographically dispersed locations so you receive a resilient, “always available” service.

Scalability

Cloud-based email filtering solutions are ideal if your organisation is planning to grow as they can scale easily and inexpensively. Extra resources can be assigned to your organisation without any major changes for the IT department to implement or disruption to services.

Simplify IT

No hardware, software, clients or complications. Appliance vendors can’t say that. By consolidating multiple point products and not having to worry about large-scale deployments in multiple locations, cloud solutions release valuable IT resources to focus on strategic and architectural challenges, not patching and managing boxes.

Quick setup

Unlike onsite solutions that often require a large time and resource investment to be deployed, cloud email filtering solutions can be up and running quickly. Most of the setup work is undertaken by the cloud provider and your involvement is often not much more than a simple change to your MX records.

Continuity

As cloud-based filters receive a copy of each email before it is delivered to your network some solutions can act as an interim email service if your onsite email server is temporarily out of action. Users are able to send or receive emails during an outage so your business communication can continue unhindered.

Bandwidth Saving

With an onsite solution spam is stopped from reaching your email server but it has already taken up valuable – and sometimes expensive – bandwidth. A cloud solution filters email before it reaches your network so can drastically reduce the load on your connection. Any spam or blocked content is held in datacentres away from your connection so the email volume your network handles is much smaller.